> Thankfully, lately it seems that they failed. I still get the impression the 'selectively silence misinformation' crowd is still as emboldened as ever, even

> Thankfully, lately it seems that they failed. I still get the impression the 'selectively silence misinformation' crowd is still as emboldened as ever, even in the pursuit of science. Despite it repeatedly failing and backfiring. COVID helped give Reddit-style control of discourse a glean of urgency/respectability and "it's okay because we had good-intentions" continues to be the go-to justification.